Dr.Iveta Reinholde is a professor of public administration at the University of Latvia. The fields of her research include public policy evaluation, internal and external audit. She is experienced in advising and designing policy recommendations for national and local governments as she is head of the Public Council of the National Audit Office (Latvia). Since 2018, she is a member of the board of IIA Latvia.

Águeda de Lara is currently Director of Internal Audit and Risk at Globalvia. She is a certified Internal Auditor (CIA) with over twenty years of experience in internal and external auditing (Deloitte, EDP Renováveis (EDPR). She has a double degree in Business and Law from the Pontifical University of Comillas and also has a master’s degree in Big Data, Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence from the IE Business School.

Andrea Bracht heads up the Internal Audit department of Commerzbank AG on Executive level. Until she took over her role in October 2015 she was in charge of overseeing all audit activities related to Commerzbank AG’s investment banking business globally.

Being a trained bank officer with a degree in business administration (Universities of Passau, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and Budapest), Andrea started her career in Dresdner Bank where she worked in Group Audit’s Investment banking audit division. In 2007 she became Chief Operating Officer of Group Treasury being responsible for the management of the function’s operational business for more than five years. Andrea is member of the executive board of the DIIR – Deutsches Institut für Interne Revision (German IIA).

Sandro Boeri is an internationally recognised voice at the forefront of reshaping the internal audit profession. He serves as President of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors in the UK and founder of Risk Audit, he is a champion of bold thinking and practical innovation in governance, behavioural risk, and organisational culture.

Osman Bahri Turgut is the Chief Audit Executive at Garanti BBVA, a leading franchise of the Spain-based BBVA Group in Türkiye. He is responsible for the internal audit of three banks of Garanti BBVA in Türkiye, the Netherlands and Romania and their subsidiaries. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (Marmara University) and several licenses.

Over his 35-year career, Osman undertook diverse roles in the banking industry and especially in the internal audit function, making him a leader with extensive past experience and expertise. He is also a strong supporter and contributor of the development of new generation internal auditors and innovations in the internal audit profession. He currently leads an Agile internal audit function equipped with cutting edge technologies and data oriented methods, reflecting his investment in the future of the internal audit.